7 people died and several others were injured in the collapse of a building in Dakar. In Libya, authorities returned 350 Egyptian migrants who were staying illegally in Libya to their country.
In Niger, a tax of 10 CFA francs per call has been implemented on all calls whose cost exceeds 12 C FA francs. In Janjanbureh, in eastern Gambia, the Kankourang festival celebrates each year this traditional figure from Mandinka mythology. In 2023, a total of “23,361 migrants of African and Asian nationalities, most of them from Nigeria” were returned from Libya.